Bug 27136 - can't print on A4 paper
Summary: can't print on A4 paper
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 27116
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: LPRng
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Crutcher Dunnavant
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-12 12:52 UTC by Tim Waugh
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2001-02-17 22:34:43 UTC
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
/var/spool/lpd/lp/status.lp (2.79 KB, text/plain)
2001-02-13 13:27 UTC, Tim Waugh 		no flags Details
printcap (371 bytes, text/plain)
2001-02-17 22:32 UTC, David Sainty 		no flags Details
printconf.switchboard.adl (1.86 KB, text/plain)
2001-02-17 22:33 UTC, David Sainty 		no flags Details
status.norm from /var/spool/lpd/norm/ (7.30 KB, text/plain)
2001-02-17 22:34 UTC, David Sainty 		no flags Details
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Description Tim Waugh 2001-02-12 12:52:30 UTC 
$ echo hello | mpage -1 -bA4 -o | lpr
$

Nothing is printed.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<adm_context VERSION="0">
  <id NAME="local" SERIAL="981923872">
    <null/>
    <null/>
    </id>
  <datatree>
    <printconf TYPE="LIST">
      <print_queues TYPE="LIST">
        <letters ATOMIC="TRUE" TYPE="LIST">
          <alias_list ANONYMOUS="TRUE" TYPE="LIST">
            </alias_list>
          <queue_type TYPE="STRING" VALUE="LOCAL"/>
          <filter_type TYPE="STRING" VALUE="MAGICFILTER"/>
          <queue_data TYPE="LIST">
            <printer_device TYPE="STRING" VALUE="/dev/lp0"/>
            </queue_data>
          <filter_data TYPE="LIST">
            <mf_type TYPE="STRING" VALUE="MFOMATIC"/>
            <gs_driver TYPE="STRING" VALUE="bj200"/>
            <printer_id TYPE="INT" VALUE="58720"/>
            </filter_data>
          </letters>
        <pictures ATOMIC="TRUE" TYPE="LIST">
          <alias_list ANONYMOUS="TRUE" TYPE="LIST">
            </alias_list>
          <queue_type TYPE="STRING" VALUE="LOCAL"/>
          <filter_type TYPE="STRING" VALUE="NONE"/>
          <queue_data TYPE="LIST">
            <printer_device TYPE="STRING" VALUE="/dev/lp2"/>
            </queue_data>
          <filter_data TYPE="LIST">
            </filter_data>
          </pictures>
        </print_queues>
      </printconf>
    </datatree>
  </adm_context>
Comment 1 Glen Foster 2001-02-12 23:01:12 UTC 
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Florence Release-Candidate #1
Comment 2 Crutcher Dunnavant 2001-02-13 10:21:46 UTC 
Is 'nothing' printed, or do you get a blank page?
Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2001-02-13 10:30:58 UTC 
Just try it.

I don't think it even gets as far as printing nothing---there are errors in the
status file.
Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2001-02-13 13:27:20 UTC 
You don't even need a printer to do this.  I'll attach the status.lp file.
Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2001-02-13 13:27:57 UTC 
Created attachment 9900 [details]
/var/spool/lpd/lp/status.lp
Comment 6 Tim Waugh 2001-02-13 13:32:28 UTC 
Oh, wait, I see the problem now.  Why is it prepending '<</PageSize[612
792]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice'?  That seems to be bogus.

Adding that line in after %%BeginProlog makes the page entirely empty, which is
what this will be.

This probably also explains why I've been having trouble with the top margin of
print jobs.
Comment 7 Tim Waugh 2001-02-14 01:37:48 UTC 
See also bug 27116.
Comment 8 David Sainty 2001-02-17 22:28:14 UTC 
Okay... tried to recreate the scenario Tim had above....

I used printconf-0.1-13, printconf-gui-0.1-13, mpage-2.5.1-5, LPRng-3.7.4-16.

I did:

 $ echo hello | mpage -1 -bA4 -o | lpr

and I got output. Printer is a Xerox DocuPrint N40, configured as a DocuPrint
N32...  I will attach the switchboard xml, printcap and status.<printername>
files now.
Comment 9 David Sainty 2001-02-17 22:32:51 UTC 
Created attachment 10340 [details]
printcap
Comment 10 David Sainty 2001-02-17 22:33:37 UTC 
Created attachment 10341 [details]
printconf.switchboard.adl
Comment 11 David Sainty 2001-02-17 22:34:40 UTC 
Created attachment 10342 [details]
status.norm from /var/spool/lpd/norm/
Comment 12 Crutcher Dunnavant 2001-02-20 05:10:20 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27116 ***
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